Some little notes...
1) Item I saw at work-- a guy named Juju Jiang was arrested for putting tracking software on a public internet station in a Kinko's. The software secretly kept people's keystrokes, allowing him to see everyone's email/banking passwords. Just a heads-up, sorry if it makes anyone ultraparanoid...
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/jiangPlea.htm
2) I was looking at some more wildlife books at work, leading me to seek out some pics to put in My Pics. Check em out: river otters, the alienoid isopod, and the bizzzza red-spotted trapeze crab.
3) Hi, v. Sorry to hear about the aches.
You know, it does say "favourite" when you go into the Profile set-up...much like when it says "piercings and tattoos" above the thing, rather than "body mods"... so I'm not going crazy....just yet.
1) Item I saw at work-- a guy named Juju Jiang was arrested for putting tracking software on a public internet station in a Kinko's. The software secretly kept people's keystrokes, allowing him to see everyone's email/banking passwords. Just a heads-up, sorry if it makes anyone ultraparanoid...
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/jiangPlea.htm
2) I was looking at some more wildlife books at work, leading me to seek out some pics to put in My Pics. Check em out: river otters, the alienoid isopod, and the bizzzza red-spotted trapeze crab.
3) Hi, v. Sorry to hear about the aches.
You know, it does say "favourite" when you go into the Profile set-up...much like when it says "piercings and tattoos" above the thing, rather than "body mods"... so I'm not going crazy....just yet.
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RE: The isopod. Very freaky looking. I never liked anything with too many legs. Jumping Spiders I really love, but big hairy ones give me the willies. Problem is, it's hard to tell just how big the isopod is. The bigger, the better of course.
I saw video footage of a related creature which they called the Arctic Sea Flea. It lives on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, deep underneath the ice caps, and really does look like a flea, only it's the size of a standard NFL football!!!
Even more freaky than the trapeze crab is the giant Japanese Spider Crab whose habitat is off the eastern coastline around the edge of the Marianas trench. I have seen a preserved skeleton on display in the Natural History Museum of Dublin in Ireland. Imagine a crab body you could comfortably sit on, about a foot, a foot-and-a-half wide between the two futhest points.
Now imagine articulated legs 4 metres long!!!
In the same documentary (it seemed to be focused on strange sea creatures) they had footage of a group of these guys. They move very slowly, and let me tell you, it is just creepy to have these things moving towards the submarine camera knowing that the only reason they STILL look sort of small, is because of the size of the submarine. A small man could probably stand comfortably underneath one and have his head rub the belly of the body. In reality, the pressure of their natural depth would preclude that by having to be in a WALDO.